Evaluation of the Optimal Protein Required in Granulated Microdiets for Rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) Larvae

Table 6

Amino acid (AA) profiles of the whole body of rockfish larvae fed the experimental diets at the end of the feeding trial (% of wet weight).

	Experimental diets								value
	CP42	CP46	CP50	CP54	CP58	IV	LL	Crumble
Essential AA
Arginine
Histidine	^abc	^a	^c	^bc	^bc	^abc	^ab	^abc
Isoleucine
Leucine	^bc	^ab	^bc	^bc	^c	^ab	^a	^ab
Lysine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Threonine	^bcd	^ab	^cd	^cd	^d	^abc	^a	^abcd
Valine
Nonessential AA
Alanine	^ab	^abc	^ab	^c	^c	^ab	^a	^ab
Aspartic acid
Cysteine
Glutamic acid	^bc	^ab	^bc	^bc	^c	^ab	^a	^ab
Glycine
Proline	^b	^ab	^b	^b	^b	^a	^a	^a
Serine
Tyrosine

Values (means of triplicate SE) in the same row sharing the same superscript letter are not significantly different ().